Experts
Nicholas Lemann
Dean, Columbia Univ. School of Journallism
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Nicholas Lemann: How will this age be remembered?
The War on Terror won't seem nearly as important. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Future
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Nicholas Lemann: What is George W. Bush's legacy?
Its hard to trust your impressions in real time, Lemann says. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Future, Politics & Policy
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Nicholas Lemann: On Mearsheimer and Walt: Did the Israel lobby take us into Iraq?
Lemann thinks that Mearsheimer and Walt couldve made a far more subtle - and stronger - point. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Politics & Policy, World
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Nicholas Lemann: The Israel Lobby
Lemann says that their influence is exaggerated, something that makes him uncomfortable. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Nicholas Lemann: Is the influence of special interests overblown?
The idea that we can get rid of lobbies is a myth, Lemann says. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Nicholas Lemann: How is the Internet changing politics?
The Web is just one organizing tool in a bigger toolbox, says Lemann. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Media & Internet, Politics & Policy
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Nicholas Lemann: Are two parties enough?
Lemann explains why we have two parties, and why it probably won't change. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Nicholas Lemann: An Ahistorical Memory
Lemann says that we tend to be excessively pessimistic. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Future
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Nicholas Lemann: Bush, Clinton, Bush Clinton
The possibility less important than it seems, Lemann says. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Nicholas Lemann: Have Latinos become the new targets of racism?
Lemann has been surprised by the strength of the reaction. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Identity, Politics & Policy
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Nicholas Lemann: Are you satisfied with the state of race relations in America?
Race is no longer at the center of the national consciousness, Lemann says. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Identity, Politics & Policy
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Nicholas Lemann: Can journalists be objective?
Objectivity, Lemann says, emerges from vigorous juried conversation. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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Nicholas Lemann: Does the media have too much say on matters of national security?
The New York Times did exactly what it was supposed to do, Lemann says. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Media & Internet, Politics & Policy
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Nicholas Lemann: Is the media responsible for the war in Iraq?
This raises a larger issue of the press' role in politics, Lemann says. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Media & Internet, Politics & Policy, World
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Nicholas Lemann: What does our interest in gossip say about us?
This is nothing new, Lemann says. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Arts & Culture, Media & Internet
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Nicholas Lemann: Are bloggers journalists?
Lemann sees bloggers as tapping into a very old tradition. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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Nicholas Lemann: Can newspapers survive the digital revolution?
Newspapers will survive, but they won't be understood as newspapers. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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Nicholas Lemann: What challenges does the new generation of journalists face?
The new delivery system of journalism poses many new questions, Lemann says. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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Nicholas Lemann: Can journalism be taught in a classroom?
It depends on who you are, Lemann says. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In Media & Internet, Politics & Policy
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Nicholas Lemann: How did you get into journalism?
A funny deal with a small local paper. Read More
February 6, 2008 | In History, Media & Internet
Nick Lemann is the Dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism and a former New Yorker staff writer. While at Harvard – where he graduated in 1976 – Lemann served as President of the Crimson. He has worked as a reporter and editor at The Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, The Atlantic Monthly and The Washington Post, focusing primarily on national affairs.
Lemann is the author of The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, about the SAT, and most recently, Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War, about the failure of Reconstruction. At Columbia, where he was hired as Dean of the Journalism School in 2003, Lemann implemented a two-year curriculum and has focused on teaching alternative journalistic mediums in the Internet age.
